From time to time we hear news reports of problems in people’s homes resulting from unwelcome guests gate-crashing a party. Certainly, the last venue we would expect to be gate-crashed, is God’s heavenly banquet, described sometimes as the ‘Marriage Feast of the Lamb’. However, this seems to have occurred in today’s Gospel parable. But more […]

The image of the vineyard features prominently once again in our readings this Sunday. Who owns the vineyard in which we live today? In baptism we were consecrated to the Lord, with the cross being traced on our foreheads as the mark of God’s ownership over us. If the Lord came unexpectedly for us today, […]

 A couple of key themes running through today’s readings are: it’s never too late to have a change of heart, and actions speak louder than words. We are still in this world because we still have lessons to learn and work to do before we will be ready to move on to the eternal realm. […]

The Lord challenges our innate sense of fairness in this Sunday’s parable of the labourers who are called to work in the vineyard. Is the owner in this story being unfair? If we interpret it literally and by the accepted standards of this world, perhaps he is. More than that, his actions seem radical and […]